No consent of the governed: Andrew Cuomo on the brink
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The Economist
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🗓️ 5 August 2021
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After a damning report into sexual-harassment allegations, support for New York’s governor has cratered. He is hanging on—for now. LinkedIn seems to do a brisk trade in China, without revealing how it keeps on the right side of the censors. So users increasingly censor themselves. And the mutual appreciation of Chechnya’s brutal dictator and a star mixed-martial-arts fighter.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:49.7 | For all the Western tech firms without a presence in China, |
| 0:53.3 | LinkedIn seems like a standout exception, but how it keeps on the right side of the |
| 0:58.1 | sensors is murky, leading to just the kind of self-censorship that the Communist Party aims for. |
| 1:04.8 | And mixed martial arts is huge in Chechnya, in particular with its tough guy leader |
| 1:10.4 | Ramzan Kaderov, who runs his own MMA gyms. |
| 1:14.2 | It all plays well on social media, but it may just be a way to train loyal, brutal fighters |
| 1:19.7 | and burnish an autocrat's ugly image. |
| 1:27.9 | First up though. |
| 1:34.0 | For the sake of the state, the governor should resign. |
| 1:37.5 | Governor Cuomo should do the right thing, resign, and leave space for future leadership in New York. |
| 1:42.8 | He has to leave. There's nowhere for him to turn. |
| 1:45.6 | No one is left in Andrew Cuomo's corner, but the Democratic governor of New York state seems |
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